Carbureter.



.No. 656,495. Patented Aug. V2|,-VI900.

J. P. ANDERSON. GARBUBETEB.

(Application `flled May 22',` 1900.)

(No Model.)

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yIA'iunvr OFFICE0 JAMES P. ANDERSON, OF ANAMOSA, IOVA."

CARBURETER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,495, dated August 21, 1900.

`.Application and my 22, 1900.

mosa, in the cou nty of ,l ones and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Oarbureting,

Apparatus, of which the following is a specication. y

My invention is an improved apparatus for carbureting air by forcing the same through a body of liquid hydrocarbon.

One object of my invention is to provide an improved apparatus whereby the gas obtained may be of any desired richness.

A further object of my invention is to provide means for thoroughly commingling the air and the vapor of liquid hydrocarbon.

My invention consists'in the peculiar con- 'struction and arrangement of parts, which will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and

pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a carbureting apparatus embodying my improvements. Fig;

2 is partly a top plan view and partly a sectional view of the same on the line a a of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a detail vertical transverse sectional view of one of the carbureting-chambers.

The hydrocarbon-tank 1 is circular in form, as shown, and the cover 2 thereof is provided with a central vertical extension 3, which is preferably cylindrical in form. I The servicepipe 4 leads from the cover of the hydrocarbon-tank, and an air-pipe 5, through which air is forced by a suitable blower, (not shown,) extends vertically through the center of the hydrocarbon-tank and up into the vertical extension 3 of the cover thereof and is concentrically disposed therein, the upper end of the airpipe being open. A circular oat 6 is centrally disposed in the hydrocarbontank and is adapted to rotate freely on the verticalinner extension of the air-pipe 5, the latter passing centrally through the float, and the iioat is provided on its upper side with a series of radially-disposed air-pipes 7, which communicate at their inner onds with a vertically-disposed pipe 8, which surrounds the upper portion of the air-pipe 5 and is located concentrically therewith and with the vertical extension 3 of the tank-cover. A series of carbureting-chambers 9 are disposed on hydrocarbon, usually gasolene.

Serial No. 17,585. (No model.)

the outer sides of the iioat 6 and project ra-` dially therefrom. Said carbureting-chambers are closed on their upper sides and open en /their. lower sides, as shown, and each car- .bureting-chamber is provided with a series of radially vertically disposed baftle-plates 10, thereby dividing each of the carburetingchambers into a series of sections 11, which communicate with each other through openings 12 in the baffleplates- Similar openings 13 are in the sides of the carbureting-chambers opposite thedirection of rotation of the` oat and the carbureting-chambers supportcarbureting-chambers is provided on its uplper side with an opening 14, commonly closed by a cork or other suitable closure, (indicated at 15.) Any desired number of baiileplates may be employed in each of the carbureting-chambers and the latter divided p into as many sections as may be required.

Fan-blades 16, which are radially disposed, are located appropriately above the float 6 and adapted to be rotated thereby. As here shown, said fan-blades are secured on the upper sides of theradially-disposed airpipes 7.

rlhe operation of my invention is as follows: The tank l contains a body of liquid i The float being supported thereby supports the carburetingfchambers and maintains the latter at all times at the same depth within the body of the liquid hydrocarbon. The air kwhich is forced through the pipe 5 escapes from the open inner upper end thereof into the pipe 8, down which it descends to the radial pipes 7, passes outward through said pipe 7 into the innermost of the sections of the carbureting-chambers, is forced downward through the body of hydrocarbon in the first section, escapes therefrom through the openings 12 into the next section in series, in which it ascends to the top of said section above the level of the liquid hydrocarbon, is then forced downward again through the hydrocarbon in the same section and through the opening 12 into the next section in series, the air in thus passing from section to section IOO in each carbureting-chamber being effectually carbureted by being forced through the liquid hydrocarbon, as Will be readily understood, and as the air issues from each carbureting-chamber through the openings 13 in the direction indicated by the feathered arrows the float carrying the carburetingchafnbers is caused to rotate Within the tank in the opposite direction, as Will be readily understood. The carbureted air passes from the tank 1 through the service-pipe 4. The fan-blades 16 being set in motion by the rotation of the oat and the carbureting-chambers serve to thoroughly admix the carbureted air and the vapors arising from the body 0f the hydrocarbon prior to the discharge of the carbureted air through the service-pipe. When all the openings 14 in the carbureting-chambers are closed by the corks or closures l5, the air, as the same is in proc-A ess of becoming carbureted, is caused to pass through the entire series of sections of the carbureting chambers; but by removing some of the corks or closures the air may be caused to escape from the carbureting-chambers after having passed through any desired number less than the entire series of the sections thereof, and hence gas or carbureted said pipe and having the pipe 8 on its upper side, around the said arm of said air-pipe, the latter discharging into said pipe 8, a series of radially-disposed carbureting-chambers on the said iioat, air-pipes 7 connecting pipe 8 with said carbureting-chambers, and aV service-pipe leading from the said tank at a point above the said float, substantially as described.

2. In a carbureting apparatus, the combination With a closed tank for liquid hydrocarbon, of atloat revoluble therein, carbureting-chambers carried by said oat and immersed in the liquid hydrocarbon, means to force air through said carbureting-chambers into the liquid hydrocarbon, and a Ifan on the upper side of the revoluble float within the gas-space of the tank, substantially as described.

3. In a carbureting apparatus, a tank for liquid hydrocarbon, a float revoluble therein, and having carbureting-chambers divided into communicating sections, said sections having openings on their upper sides, and removable closures for said openings, means to force air through said .carbureting-chambers, into the hydrocarbon in which they are immersed, and a service-pipe leading from the said tank, substantially as described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES P. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

E. O. SAYLE, W. H. CAMPBELL. 

